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Bulbophyllum (This genus there are about)

Of this genus there are about eighty species, mostly dispersed through tropical Africa and Asia; a few are South American or Australian, and one is found in New Zealand. To those described on p. 222, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. grandiflorum (large-flowered). fl. solitary, large, densely reticulated with brown on a pale ground; sepals lanceolate-attenuate, 4in. to 5in. long, free, the upper one twice as broad as the lateral ones, strongly arching over at the base, and hanging down in front. l. solitary, elliptic, 2 1/2in. to 3in. long. Pseudobulbs about 1in. long, distant, four-angled. Rhizome creeping. New Guinea, 1887. More grotesque than beautiful. B. saurocephalum (lizard's-head). fl. very curious; sepals light ochreous, nerved brown; petals white, with reddish midline and borders, small; lip ochreous, deep purple at base; rachis bright red, thick, clavate, loaded with flowers. Pseudo-bulbs four or five-angled, one-leaved. Philippine Islands, 1886. An interesting species.

B. Sillemianum (Sillem's). fl., sepals short, blunt, triangular; petals nearly orange, shorter, ligulate-falcate; lip mauve above, whitish beneath, cordate at base, five-angled, with a reflexed apex; column very short. l. cuneate-ligulate, acute. Pseudo-bulbs nearly spherical. Birma, 1884.